Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
Blanche Auzello, an American, was married to Claude, a Frenchman who managed the famous Ritz Hotel in Paris.
Working together and living at The Ritz, the Auzellos hosted the rich and famous, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Coco Chanel.
But their glamorous lives changed drastically when the Nazis occupied Paris and set up headquarters at The Ritz. (Coco Chanel continued to live at The Ritz with her lover, a high-ranking Nazi. That’s another story.)
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